pegamento

Spanish

Etymology

From pegar +‎ -mento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɡaˈmento/ [pe.ɣ̞aˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: pe‧ga‧men‧to

Noun

pegamento m (plural pegamentos)

1. glue, adhesive

   Synonyms: (especially in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Uruguay) goma, (Colombia) pegante, (Puerto Rico, Venezuela) pega, (Mexico) resistol

2. (figurative) glue

Usage notes

• For natural glue paste made from horse hooves, use cola. Pegamento generally refers to synthetically-produced glue.

Derived terms

• barra de pegamento (“glue stick”) (Spain)
• barrita de pegamento (“glue stick [for a glue gun]”)
• pegamento en barra (“glue stick”) (Mexico, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru)

 

Related terms

• pegamiento
• pegar

 

Further reading

• “pegamento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014